1. No eating at the table, biscuits excluded for both online and F2F
2. Opening 1C where the suit could be less than 4 should be announced as "could be as short as 1,2 or 3" NB Could be as short as 0 is alerted
3. If a bid has extra meaning then it must be announced/alerted Examples a) When playing weak NT, 5 card majors - if your bid could include a 5 card major or a 6 card minor- Announce
b) When playing 2 over 1, 2C or 1NT over a 1H/S as they contain extra/unexpected meaning -c - - Announce
c) When playing Strong Diamond CRO 1C-2C is game forcing as well as showing a club suit - Alert 4. Jump overcalls need to be announced as they could be either weak, intermediate or strong in the same way as opening 2H/S bids 5.If a bid is not Alerted - Do NOT ask if it is natural - This will be regarded as potentially Unauthorised Information (UI) and will not be looked upon kindly by the Director
Reminder 1 : You can only ask about a bid if you are intending to bid yourself NB if you ask and subsequently pass you will be in danger of passing UI to your partner which could lead to penalisation
Reminder 2: Dummy should not interfere with play either verbally or non verbally
Statement is in News Page
This is all about common mistakes that are made at the table usually by accident and how they are dealt with by the director. NB Click on red underlined options to see details NB If a mistake is made then always call the director rather than try and sort it out amongst yourselves.
Common Mistakes These fall into 3 broad categories as below
Bidding “Oops”
Playing “Oops”
Scoring “Oops”
And Finally The Dreaded Unauthorised Information
Which turns up almost whenever anything goes wrong
and often when things do not appear to be going wrong